Do you understand why the Altmer are taller? It is beacuse the shorter Altmer are exiled/killed/no married and thus only the tall ones pass on their tall traits. Its a common technique in dog breeding.

The Chimer were probebly once tall. However, their numbers were small and thus when a short Chimer was born, he was not exiled/killed but rather married and had children. Thus, as more short Chimer cropped up, the shorter the race as a whole became.
The Nephilim weren't actually giants. The original stories on old Hebrew texts state that the Nephilim were not physically any larger, rather that they could fly and generally had superpowers, but were still the same height as a normal human. The giant thing is is misconception stemming from King James's censorship brigade being horrible translators when they were making the king James bible.

"The land, through which we have gone, to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim); and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them."

And Genesis, at least in the NIV...

The Nephilim weren't actually giants. The original stories on old Hebrew texts state that the Nephilim were not physically any larger, rather that they could fly and generally had superpowers, but were still the same height as a normal human. The giant thing is is misconception stemming from King James's censorship brigade being horrible translators when they were making the king James bible.

Yes, Genesis was the first (and disputed) use.

I was thinking of something while walking. Phynaster taught the Altmer how to live another hundred years by having a wider walking stride, yes? The Altmers' lifespan has been the questioned greatly, if it is indeed 1000 years then why would Phynaster be considered a culture hero? well I may have an explantaion. If the Altmers' lifespan is indeed 1000 years would it possible that the greater walking stride increased the height of the Altmer over time to adapt to the stride??? If so then would that not affect their culture and make them feel more Elitist?? That would then make them feel that he is a hero. Is this possible or am I just blowing smoke??? Just a thought.

It probably isn't a good idea to get into too big a dispute over the meaning of Nephilim, because it remains a disputed topic in modern religious scholarship. It is not true that the term is a mistranslation in the King James; at this point (though not at others), the King James is an accurate translation of the Septuagint, though the Septuagint is not itself an original or always-reliable source.

But significantly, the only other use of Nephilim is in Numbers, where in context it means the "big scary people" who inhabited Canaan.

I can't so easily exclude the Old Testament anology; Albides' contention is still well supported.

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Way to miss the point, the joke, the sarcasm and the funny all at once.